Dr Osman Ouattara

Overview

Osman Ouattara is a development economist. He obtained a PHD in Economics from the University of Manchester. His current research focuses on the macroeconomic effects of natural disasters/climate change. His also worked in other areas of Development economics  including, International Finance (Foreign Aid and FDI), Poverty & Inequality; Growth and Productivity; Institutions, etc. He has recently released a new dataset on property rights.

 Biography

DIP (Econ) LSE; MA (Econ) Manchester; PHD (Econ) Manchester

Current Position

2016- Senior Lecturer in Development Economics

Previous Academic Position

2013-2016 Lecturer in Development Economics, GDI, University of Manchester

2008-2013 Senior Lecturer in Economics, School of Business and Economics, Swansea University

2005-2008 Lecturer in Economics, School of Business and Economics, Swansea University

2003-2005 Research/Teaching Fellow, Department of Economics, University of Manchester

Administrative Positions

Convenor of the Development Economics and Public Policy Cluster (2020-)

Director of the MSc in Development Economics and Policy Programme (2014-

Exam Officer (2016-2020)

Chair of the Mitigating Circumstances Committee (2016-17)

Current Teaching

Development Macroeconomics

Trade Theory and Development

PhD Supervision

I am currently supervising 7 PHDs

Main supervisor:

• Nahid Farnaz: Financial Sector Development and Inequality
• Gabriele Restelli: Aid and Migration
• Magaly DuarteUrquhart: Debt, Fiscal and Monetary policies in Paraguay
• Tatiatana Manala (Alliance Manchester Business School): Post-conflict Reconstruction and FDI
• Abiola Olatunji: Taxation, Institution and infrastructural Development

Second supervisor:

• Moomin Solahudin: Agricultural Value Chains and NGOs
• Nawal Alharbi:  II and IT Business Strategy

I have supervised 13 PHDs to completion on the following topics:

• 2020: Fiscal decentralisation in Bangladesh
• 2019: Financial Literacy and Poverty in Indonesia
• 2019: Public-Private Partnerships and Infrastructure Development in Nigeria
• 2019: Implications of Global Value Chains for product and process upgrading; an empirical investigation of Indian firms
• 2018: Environmental upgrading of small scale farmers in value chains: The case of Kenya
• 2017: Essays on Investment and Growth
• 2016: Trade Openness, Total Factor Productivity, Export and Economic Growth
• 2015: Transmission Channels of Financial Crises and Developing Countries Labour Market
• 2015: Stock Market Development and Economic Growth in Saudi Arabia
• 2015: Technical Efficiency and Productivity Growth of Rural and Community Banks in Ghana
• 2014: Essays on the Informal Economy in Turkey
• 2013: FDI, Institutions and Growth in Namibia
• 2011: Sources of growth and total factor productivity in Africa

External Examiner

Postgraduate Taught: University of East Anglia (2020-)

PhD Degrees

University of Bradford, Cardiff University (Economics Dept), MMU Business School, Newcastle University  Business School, Brunel Business School, University of Hertfordshire,  University of Bath (Economics Dept), Liverpool JM University Business School, University of East Anglia (School of International Development), University of Manchester (Economics Dept), University of Manchester (IDPM)

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